If you want to deploy the slave site into another directory, you have to edit the slave site and update its deploy directory.

Perhaps that will result in a "fresh" installation.
If this is the case, you can copy / paste your current configuration.php into the new direcrtory.

As you have understood, JMS search for the configuration.php file into a directory path that is saved in its own JMS configuration file.
So if you move a file on the disk without updating the JMS configuration files, this will result by an error.

Master and slave sites are in the same directory working fine

the directory is called joomla

so if you type in your browser www.domain.com

it will show in the browser: www.domain.com/joomla

i just want to change the name of that directory in say "site" and leave everything in place. So that it shows in the browser as: www.domain.com/site

i found 2 config files: in the multisites directory and the same (at least in name) files in every site_id directory in the multisite directory

config_multisites.php
config_templates.php

do i have to manually change every "joomla" stated in those files by "site" ? will that be a solution? Isnt there a workaround for such operation?

thnx

Gaetan

Based on what I understand, you have installed joomla in a directory "/joomla" on you "www.domain.com"

I suppose that you have written an index.html or an index.php in your "/" root directory in which you have implemented a redirection to the "/joomla" directory in such a way that when you enter www.domain.com, you arrive to you specific index.html that redirect to the url joomla/index.php

It is normal that in the /joomla/multisites/xxx directory you have the JMS configuration files.
This is the place where JMS save the parameters that you enter.
It is also normal that you have JMS configuration information in your /joomla/multisites directory.
JMS does not save anything in the DB. Everything is saved in the "mutlisites" directory.

You don't have to touch anything in those files.
If your URL is "www.domain.com/joomla/multisites/{site_d}", this is the information that you have to enter when you define the slave sites.

The URL must be the real one.

Based on what you say till now, you say that you have not deployed the slave site into a specific directory (master and slave directory identical) then I suppose that you have configured your hosting server to have www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com that are mapped to the directory ....../joomla.
This is what you have to do and not work with the index.html and its potential redirection.
Review all the tutorial video
Nowhere we are using the redirection and also in our comment we explain that it can not be used.
In particular if you share the same directory for the master and a slave - that seems your current setup.

If you want that we configure your environment, this is possible with our billable support that you can order at
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Based on what I understand, you have installed joomla in a directory "/joomla" on you "www.domain.com"

I suppose that you have written an index.html or an index.php in your "/" root directory in which you have implemented a redirection to the "/joomla" directory in such a way that when you enter www.domain.com, you arrive to you specific index.html that redirect to the url joomla/index.php

Correct!


Ok i should abbandon the redirects and proceed as you suggest in your tutorial, my DNS environment/management does not look anywhere near the plesk or go daddy examples in your tutorial, this is where i get stuck. But hey i am willing to give it a try. In my DNS set up i find the following settings: and some are editable:

NS tiramisuitcase.com -> ns4.firstfind.nl
NS tiramisuitcase.com -> ns3.firstfind.nl
A localhost.tiramisuitcase.com -> 127.0.0.1
A tiramisuitcase.com -> 93.94.226.25 Edit Delete
A *.tiramisuitcase.com -> 93.94.226.25 Edit Delete
MX-10 tiramisuitcase.com -> server42.firstfind.nl Edit Delete
MX-20 tiramisuitcase.com -> mx1.cyso.net
MX-30 tiramisuitcase.com -> mx2.cyso.net
CNAME ftp.tiramisuitcase.com -> tiramisuitcase.com Edit Delete
CNAME pop.tiramisuitcase.com -> tiramisuitcase.com Edit Delete
CNAME smtp.tiramisuitcase.com -> tiramisuitcase.com Edit Delete
CNAME www.tiramisuitcase.com -> tiramisuitcase.com Edit Delete
CNAME mail.tiramisuitcase.com -> tiramisuitcase.com Edit Delete
CNAME pop3.tiramisuitcase.com -> tiramisuitcase.com

now which one should i change? i guess its the CNAME www.domain.com that should be changed/mapped to: masterdomain.com the domain where my joomla installation resides?

And it should be no problem that joomla and the multisites directory is in a subdirectory of the root, do i understand that right?

So in short: DNS: mapping slave.com to masterdomain.com
And in the jms environment: {slavesite_url}/joomla/multisites/{slave_id}

if so: DNSmapping slavedomain.com to masterdomain.com will lead the url slave.com to www.master.com, but in my master there is no index, the joomla installation is in a subdirectory called joomla ( www.masterdomain/public_html/joomla )

seems to me that i have to install joomla in the root of the masterdomain in this case: www.masterdomain/public_html instead of in a subdirectory

and that will also fix the url that is shown in the browser? i mean now (with the redirect) when i enter www.domain.com in the browser it will automaticly change into www.domain.com/joomla/etc and i rather like it to be just: www.domain.com/whatever_page_in my_site


is that correct?

thnx

Gaetan

Dear Gaetan,
I will refer to the tutorial video 0 (concept).
The information that you provide are the DNS configuration in which you have CName that correspond to a synonym or alias.

For example
CNAME ftp.tiramisuitcase.com -> tiramisuitcase.com
Means that "ftp.tiramisuitcase.com" is synonym of "tiramisuitcase.com"


When you are using the JMS "{site_url}/multisites/{site_id}" this mean that you don't have to define anything in your hosting server because the slave site will be a subdirectory of an exisiting domain (the one that you are using because you have access to the JMS admin).

So you don't have to define anything in your DNS for that when the domain or subdomain is already defined.

DNS is NOT the place where you define the root directory associated to a domain.
So probably you have another interface somewhere that describe the relationship between a domain name and the directory location.

Therefore, you have to search in your hosting admin tool how and where define a new domain and its locatin.
Perhaps your current hosting account does not accept to manage several domain name (I don't know).

As you seems already have installed JMS on a domain (into a subdirectory), then this mean that you have your DNS already setup and when you create a slave site with domain = "{site_url}/multisites/{site_id} and deploy it into {site_dir} then you have everything defined to work in a subdirectory.
When you return to the JMS manage site, you can put your mouse of the domain name and you will see in the tool tip the real full URL corresponding. It will be your www.domain.com/joomla/multisites/xxxx where XXX is you site ID


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thanx for the quick reply,

So you don't have to define anything in your DNS for that when the domain or subdomain is already defined.

so i leave the DNS intact, but al the domain names that i want to use for slave sites do have to point to the main domain where joomla and jms is installed right?

Using no redirect for a (slave)domain automaticly routes the slave domain to my main domain resulting in a log in page of my hosting account. thats good news, because that means all the domain names are pointing to my root masterdomain directory, so my DNS is configured right by default?

As you seems already have installed JMS on a domain (into a subdirectory), then this mean that you have your DNS already setup and when you create a slave site with domain = "{site_url}/multisites/{site_id} and deploy it into {site_dir} then you have everything defined to work in a subdirectory.

that deployment is what i am gonna look into!

When you return to the JMS manage site, you can put your mouse of the domain name and you will see in the tool tip the real full URL corresponding. It will be your www.domain.com/joomla/multisites/xxxx where XXX is you site ID

that showed: home/masterdomain.com/public_html/joomla

and that is say the redirect i used in my hosting manager: redirecting the slavedomain.com to the "real" url without the www.masterdomain.com prefix (not a www link, just pointing at: /public_html/joomla)

anyways: www.slavedomain.com (without any redirect from my hosting manager leads to www.masterdomain.com and that wil show a login page for my hosting manager, cause no website index file is found in the public_html folder, its in a subdir called joomla)